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Charle’s Law (Activity 4)

Direction: Identify the known variables and working equation then show your solutions
to the given worded problems.

1) The temperature inside my refrigerator is about 4 0 Celsius. If I place a balloon in my

fridge that initially has a temperature of 22 0 C and a volume of 0.5 liters, what will be the
volume of the balloon when it is fully cooled by my refrigerator?

2) A man heats a balloon in the oven. If the balloon initially has a volume of 0.4 liters
and a temperature of 200 C, what will the volume of the balloon be after he heats it to a
temperature of 2500 C?

3) On hot days, you may have noticed that potato chip bags seem to “inflate”, even
though they have not been opened. If I have a 250 mL bag at a temperature of 19 0 C,
and I leave it in my car which has a temperature of 60 0 C, what will the new volume of
the bag be?

4) A soda bottle is flexible enough that the volume of the bottle can change even without
opening it. If you have an empty soda bottle (volume of 2 L) at room temperature (25 0
C), what will the new volume be if you put it in your freezer (-4 0 C)?

5) Some students believe that teachers are full of hot air. If I inhale 2.2 liters of gas at a
temperature of 180 C and it heats to a temperature of 380 C in my lungs, what is the new
volume of the gas?

6) How hot will a 2.3 L balloon have to get to expand to a volume of 400 L? Assume that
the initial temperature of the balloon is 25 0 C.